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Australia's oil investment is up this year
Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:51 AM
SYDNEY, May 9 (UPI) -- Investment in Australia's oil firms increased at the beginning of 2008. -
Canadian oil firm increases exploration
Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:49 AM
CALGARY, Alberta, May 9 (UPI) -- Duvernay Oil Corp. of Calgary, Alberta, has added $50 million to its 2008 capital plan. -
South American Energy Council inaugurated
Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:47 AM
CARACAS, Venezuela, May 9 (UPI) -- The first South American Energy Council was inaugurated in Venezuela.
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Analysis: China faces tanker shortage
Published: May 9, 2008 at 8:21 PM
By JOHN C.K. DALY
UPI International Correspondent
WASHINGTON , May 9 (UPI) -- China's rising energy demands will require Beijing to either build or lease ships to carry the oil needed for its industry. As domestic tanker production has failed to keep pace with rising demand, some Chinese maritime specialists see a shortage in carrying capacity for Chinese oil imports developing by 2015. -
Analysis: Russia squeezes Mongolia
Published: May 9, 2008 at 8:16 PM
By JOHN C.K. DALY
UPI International Correspondent
Record-high energy prices are increasingly dominating Russia's trade relations with Mongolia. As Mongolia imports nearly all of its oil from Russia, the country is feeling pressure from sharp Russian price increases, and the government is seeking legislative changes to ameliorate the effect of the price increases on the population. -
OPEC Chief: U.S. economy to blame for high oil prices
Published: May 8, 2008 at 6:09 PM
By BEN LANDO
UPI Energy Editor
WASHINGTON, May 8 (UPI) -- Angry oil consumers taking aim at OPEC are looking at a "scapegoat" instead of a needed mirror, the head of the bloc of oil producers said during a visit to Washington Thursday. -
UPI Energy Watch
Published: May 8, 2008 at 4:44 PM
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Analysis: Define 'renewable'
Published: May 8, 2008 at 1:33 PM
By ROSALIE WESTENSKOW
UPI Correspondent
THE DALLES, Ore., May 8 (UPI) -- Crucial options were left out of last year's energy bill, advocacy groups say, and policymakers are looking to remedy the exclusion. -
Nigeria oil rebels eye U.S. presidential race
Published: May 8, 2008 at 12:38 PM
By CARMEN GENTILE
UPI Energy Correspondent
Nigerian militants are calling for former U.S. President Carter to mediate talks between rebels and the government to end hostilities in the oil-rich Niger Delta and are weighing a reported cease-fire appeal by Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
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Oil-rich Iraqis face Cholera still
Published: Dec. 21, 2007 at 5:04 PM
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Iraq's majority Kurdish and potentially oil-rich area in the north has survived a summer of Cholera, but the region's health minister warns of more outbreaks.
"That is cleared now, it's almost cleared, we only have one case," said Abdul Rahman Osman Yones, minister of health for the Kurdistan Regional Government. "We're only discovering the cases because of intense surveillance we are taking at the moment."
Yones, speaking with United Press International in the KRG's Washington office during a stateside visit, said residents can rest easy now because Cholera germs can't survive the cold winter nights.
"That risk is gone now until next summer," he said.
Yones said his office confirmed about 4,500 cases of Cholera in the Kurdistan region, which is made up of three provinces in the north, as well as in Kirkuk. The Dohuk province was not affected, but there were about 1,250 cases in Sulaymaniya, a few hundred in Irbil and more than 3,000 in Kirkuk, he said.
He said there is an overall "lack of pure water supply to cities, dwellings, and not enough water purification systems."
Yones also said there was a lack of good sewage systems, and at times when residents were forced dig their own wells, the water wells would interact with latrine wells.
"The problem is still there, that's why I'm saying we might have the same next summer and the summer after unless it's properly sorted," he said.
"There are a few big projects going at the moment," including one in Sulaymaniya that is scheduled to be completed next May, he said.
The KRG is a relatively prosperous area of Iraq, with more economic development and little of the security violations compared with the rest of the country. Its government is moving forward, against the wishes of the central government, with signing oil deals with foreign oil firms and exploring and developing an oil sector of its own.
Nearly all of Iraq's 115 billion barrels of oil reserves fall outside of the KRG, though much of the country is underexplored. Kirkuk, however, contains around 15 billion barrels. It's a contentious area that Kurds claim as rightfully theirs, and they are pressing hard for a referendum to allow voters in Kirkuk to decide whether to join the region.
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Ben Lando, UPI Energy Editor
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"That is cleared now, it's almost cleared, we only have one case," said Abdul Rahman Osman Yones, minister of health for the Kurdistan Regional Government. "We're only discovering the cases because of intense surveillance we are taking at the moment."
Yones, speaking with United Press International in the KRG's Washington office during a stateside visit, said residents can rest easy now because Cholera germs can't survive the cold winter nights.
"That risk is gone now until next summer," he said.
Yones said his office confirmed about 4,500 cases of Cholera in the Kurdistan region, which is made up of three provinces in the north, as well as in Kirkuk. The Dohuk province was not affected, but there were about 1,250 cases in Sulaymaniya, a few hundred in Irbil and more than 3,000 in Kirkuk, he said.
He said there is an overall "lack of pure water supply to cities, dwellings, and not enough water purification systems."
Yones also said there was a lack of good sewage systems, and at times when residents were forced dig their own wells, the water wells would interact with latrine wells.
"The problem is still there, that's why I'm saying we might have the same next summer and the summer after unless it's properly sorted," he said.
"There are a few big projects going at the moment," including one in Sulaymaniya that is scheduled to be completed next May, he said.
The KRG is a relatively prosperous area of Iraq, with more economic development and little of the security violations compared with the rest of the country. Its government is moving forward, against the wishes of the central government, with signing oil deals with foreign oil firms and exploring and developing an oil sector of its own.
Nearly all of Iraq's 115 billion barrels of oil reserves fall outside of the KRG, though much of the country is underexplored. Kirkuk, however, contains around 15 billion barrels. It's a contentious area that Kurds claim as rightfully theirs, and they are pressing hard for a referendum to allow voters in Kirkuk to decide whether to join the region.
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Ben Lando, UPI Energy Editor
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(e-mail: blando@upi.com)
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